Hi everyone I’m new to all this so bear with me if I make mistakes. I’m currently running an Unraid server primarily running radarrr/sonarr/Plex etc usually the most it ever has to handle is 4 Plex streams and maybe some ‘downloads’ at the same time. Also will occasionally be used for transcoding using handbrake.
Currently I’m running an Intel i3-6100 which is a 2 core 4 thread cpu with a TDP of 51W. I live in the UK where electricity is exorbitant so I’m looking to upgrade to something more powerful while ideally not breaking the bank on electricity. Above I’ve listed the 4 main CPUs I’ve been considering and some of the relevant stats. Any advice/resources you can point me to are really needed. Thanks
7th-9th Gen uses a newer version of QuickSync than 6th gen had, which adds h265 encoding and better overall image quality.
I’d lean toward one of the 7th gen CPUs if you’re using Plex.
Yeah I’ve got quite a lot of content with h265 so that’s definitely worth knowing thanks!
Not a huge deal for watching h265, since Plex still just transcodes to h264 (if it ever needs to transcode).
But it’s nice if you use something like tDarr to convert your h264s to h265.
But, just the overall improvement in speed/quality is nice when you jump up a generation in QuickSync.